'Once we have received such a proposal formally, we will discuss the matter as a caucus and consult with our provincial leadership,' the ANC’s Cameron Dugmore, who is the leader of opposition in the provincial legislature, said in a statement
The Democratic Alliance has said it’s up to the ANC in the National Assembly to decide who it appoints as chairperson of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts . And, in a surprise move this week, the DA, the governing party in the Western Cape, said it had offered the chairpersonship of Scopa in the provincial legislature to the ANC.
But there is more to the DA’s provincial offering. It says it hopes the ANC reciprocates the gesture by offering the Scopa chairpersonship to the official opposition in the National Assembly. The DA’s chief whip in the provincial legislature, Mireille Wenger, said: “We [the DA] had that discussion and we thought it would be in keeping with democratic practice to offer it to the official opposition [in the provincial legislature].
What has it achieved so far?